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Baneblade

"All Guardsmen! FOLLOW ME TO GLORY!!"

A super heavy tank forged on Mars itself, the Baneblade is the oldest tank still in the Imperial Guard arsenal. It is equipped with a battle cannon paired with a coaxial autocannon, a demolisher cannon, 3 twin-linked heavy bolters, and 2 lascannons. The Baneblade can withstand an incredible amount of punishment, especially with a Techpriest Enginseer repairing the vehicle during combat.

Tactics

The Baneblade is arguably the best assault vehicle in the game, surpassing even the Necron Restored Monolith in its ability to make things no longer alive. While the Battle Cannon is turreted and can move to fire in 360 in a relatively good response time, it's secondary cannon, the Demolisher Cannon, can not. It is therefore best, not surprisingly, to keep the Baneblade pointed at what you want it to make no longer alive. Sporting 11 barrels of destructive fury (each set of heavy bolters has two barrels), it is quite capable of handling most vehicle threats itself. However, it is by nature a strong bullet magnet, so an escort of Leman Russ tanks, Kasrkin, and other units is usually necessary to ward off threatening enemy units.

The only real disadvantage to the Baneblade is its size. If you have an extremely crowded base, you may actually have to scuttle a building or two to even get this behemoth out of your base. Also, it can be extremely unwieldy on the more constricted maps, especially when accompanied by a large army. In this situation, it can also be very easily trapped and isolated by melee units.

Weapons

Battle Cannon

Battle Cannon

Damage Per Second Values

Infantry

Vehicles

Buildings

Daemons

Morale

Base Damage

Low

Med

High

H.Med

H.Hi

Cmdr

Low

Med

High

Air

Low

Med

High

Med

High

DPS

Base

Min

Max

Min.D

Initial DPS:

60.1

55.6

50.2

45.3

35.6

16.2

25.2

10.8

20.9

NA

25.0

10.2

8.0

40.0

50.7

5.0

50.05

415

585

40

Cost

Default Weapon

Range

60 (min 10)

Setup Time

0 s

Build Time

Default Weapon

Accuracy

100%, offset 0, blind offset 0

Refire Rate

5 s

Area of Effect

5

Requires

Nothing

Notes

The Battle Cannon does friendly fire and knockback (30-40 force).

Demolisher Cannon

Demolisher Cannon

Damage Per Second Values

Infantry

Vehicles

Buildings

Daemons

Morale

Base Damage

Low

Med

High

H.Med

H.Hi

Cmdr

Low

Med

High

Air

Low

Med

High

Med

High

DPS

Base

Min

Max

Min.D

Initial DPS:

93.2

86.2

77.9

70.2

62.9

40.7

70.1

55.5

32.4

NA

77.9

39.0

15.6

69.8

78.5

0.006

0.05

405

525

40

Cost

Default Weapon

Range

50 (min 10)

Setup Time

0 s

Build Time

Default Weapon

Accuracy

100%, offset 0, blind offset 0

Refire Rate

3 s

Area of Effect

5

Requires

Nothing

Notes

The Demolisher Cannon does friendly fire and knockback (40-60 force).

Autocannon

Autocannon

Damage Per Second Values

Infantry

Vehicles

Buildings

Daemons

Morale

Base Damage

Low

Med

High

H.Med

H.Hi

Cmdr

Low

Med

High

Air

Low

Med

High

Med

High

DPS

Base

Min

Max

Min.D

Initial DPS:

13.5

13.8

13.6

13.6

13.6

12.2

50.8

40.0

35.0

NA

52.7

40.5

32.5

13.3

18.7

1.7

20.05

280

360

40.5

Cost

Default Weapon

Range

35

Setup Time

0

Build Time

Default Weapon

Accuracy

50%

Refire Rate

3 s

Area of Effect

0

Requires

Nothing

Twin Heavy Bolter

There are two sponson Twin Heavy Bolters on the Baneblade, one on either side of the vehicle, and a third mounted directly on the hull next to the Demolisher cannon. They have been listed here once because the values are similar for all three.

Twin Heavy Bolter

Damage Per Second Values

Infantry

Vehicles

Buildings

Daemons

Morale

Base Damage

Low

Med

High

H.Med

H.Hi

Cmdr

Low

Med

High

Air

Low

Med

High

Med

High

DPS

Base

Min

Max

Min.D

Initial DPS:

30.0

27.5

25.0

22.5

20.0

5.0

12.0

6.0

1.0

NA

11.5

4.2

1.0

22.5

7.5

3

12

90

110

2

Cost

Default Weapon

Range

35

Setup Time

0 s

Build Time

Default Weapon

Accuracy

50%

Refire Rate

1 s

Area of Effect

0

Requires

Nothing

Notes

The left sponson Twin Heavy Bolter has different DPS values for Vehicle Low (5.0) and Vehicle Medium (1.0).